Scholarship Search Engine

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Scholarship Search Engine

• Assignment 2
• Comp 6626
• Megan Burton

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Background

• In this presentation, you will first see a
  screenshot of one of the webpages from my
  Scholarship Search Engine website.
• Then you will find a slide explaining some of my
  thoughts and ideas about that webpage.

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Introduction Page

• I personally lean towards a very simple, classic
  design. (I love Googles webpage because of its
  simple yet functional design.) This is why you
  wont find a lot of graphics or unnecessary
  images on this website.
• I also think it is important to provide
  continuity between pages on the same site (you
  dont want the user to click on an internal
  link and think he/she has left your site). This
  is why you will find the same blue header on all
  the webpages.

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Introduction (2)

• I also wanted to ensure easy navigation within
  the site. This is why each page has the same
  navigation menu located on the left of the
  screen.
• I really liked the idea of having a quick keyword
  search. I ran across this on several scholarship
  websites. For example, if you want to see all
  scholarships that are associated with horses you
  just typed in the word horse.

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Profile Search Page

• For each of the text area boxes, I attempted to
  choose data that was relevant to Auburn. For
  example, I looked in the AU Bulletin to obtain a
  list of the colleges and majors available at
  Auburn. If I was to continue development on this
  search engine, I would work with the
  administration at Auburn to ensure I had a
  complete listing.
• I could not get a good listing for all the sports
  that were available at Auburn. I tried and tried
  to go to the athletics department website
  (www.auburntigers.com) but their website was
  always down when I went to it. However, what I
  show should be sufficient enough for a paper
  design. Of course, I would work with the
  Athletic Department to ensure I had all athletics
  listed if this were going to be a real
  scholarship search engine.

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Profile Search (2)

• While researching scholarship websites, I
  realized there were numerous things you could
  include in a profile search (such as religion,
  heritage, parents work associations, etc). I
  attempted to chose the items I felt would be most
  beneficial to Auburn students.
• The next step would be to present this to the
  customer (i.e. Dr. Seals) and discuss any further
  items she would want added.

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Search Results

• I wanted to keep with Auburns colors in my
  table. However, I found it very difficult to
  read the scholarship names with the bright orange
  and dark blue. Therefore, I decided on a
  compromise. I kept the header row the dark blue
  and made the font orange, but the rest of the
  rows I used a black font and white or a light
  background color.
• I wanted to shade the alternating rows to ease
  readability but still keep with the color
  palette. To achieve this, I took Auburns orange
  color and diluted it then, I made this the
  background color for my alternating rows.
  Hopefully, this made the scholarship names,
  amounts, and deadlines more readable.

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Search Results (2)

• Interesting Side Note The scholarships listed
  are real scholarships that were returned when I
  did a keyword search for horse at the
  collegeboard.com website.

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Scholarship Detail View

• Initially, I was going to copy the information on
  one of the scholarships that was returned with my
  horse quick search. Then I got concerned that
  might be seen as plagiarism since I would be
  copying the scholarship information word for
  word. Therefore, I just decided to make up a
  fake scholarship.
• I decided to make the look of the scholarship
  detail view similar to the profile search page.
  I did this to provide continuity throughout the
  site. I felt the profile search page did a good
  job of presenting information in a clear,
  easy-to-read format, so I used the same style
  (i.e. bold words and horizontal lines) to make
  the scholarship detail view easily readable as
  well.

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Scholarship Detail (2)

• Side Note Before I included it, I did make sure
  that www.bigbucksferrari.com was not a real
  website (at least not when I checked for it).